GURPS Technomancer

Buck in New York Land day 1

7

MAY/13

Oppression, what an ugly word. History has shown it in so many forms. Hitler’s’ rise to power, slavery and the Civil War. Rich fat cats and dog eat dog world of the not corporate favored.
For the last few months in Miami it meant be a dragon and inherit magic but don’t dare use it, you’ll attract attention. Then it meant rich mobster kidnap beautiful girl cause ya got money, guns, power and ya can! Yeah, fixed that one.
Now it’s off to New York, the big apple. Problem is thanks to a dimensional portal, this big apple has bit marks and only 2 holes in the fruit. Vampires! Ya know a year ago if ya asked me about them I’d have said, great gaming material and seen some cool movies about em. But here?!?! They are the 1%, they are the fat cats, they are the privileged and they are running the joint. Oppression has befallen humanity and humanity is just a depressed food supply.
So we are here, guess a look around is in order. I got suckered by the game I thought was research so I wasn’t able to pack. So we get here and a kid greets us “Oh the dragons are here.” Or something like that. By Layla made us cool biker outfits with dragons on them so I guess the reaction makes sense. He turned out to be part of the resistance, but the last one. The rest all got picked up in a bad sting apparently. So topping Layla’s to do list was get cash, guess she wanted to pawn something. We started porting for a shop. Took me a bit longer, still a little new at the warping thing but I think I got a better handle on it now. However on the way I had a few mishaps. I guess my feet freaked some chick out, then she kicked me. I admit I was annoyed so I said so, then her boyfriend had to chime in and punched me. I mean come on people, really!? I ask ya, would you punch an invisible entity if you were a human? That make a lot of sense to you? You got no idea what you’re trying to hit, if you can hurt it, if you’ll make it mad and what fate it would or could do to you for being stupid. But I was in a mood and I am here to help people, taking to fighting them would be a little counterproductive don’t ya think?
So no real harm done, I finally caught up to her at the shop and she groans something about sirens and somehow thinks it must be my fault. Then she tells me to mug the shop keep since we need to do this quick before cops arrive but really why would they be coming for us, we ain’t done anything yet. So I go in and sell a necklace she brought, we pop up to the roof, decide to head back but along the way I spot the library so I had to take a look around at least. Not a huge lay of the land in discovery but I did note the oppression in the available science information in the library before catching back up with her. But of course she was all hot temper still cause I took longer. Now she’s out shopping, so I guess I’ll scan this history information I read about.